Samsung Vibrant on Slim Bean 3.1.0
Sometimes when I wake the phone, the touchscreen will seem to register a "phantom touch" that grabs the circular unlock slider so that I can only unlock it by quickly jerking the circle to the right.
This issue is temporarily fixed by turning the screen off and on again, or unlocking it like I mentioned above -- it has no effect after the phone is unlocked.
Any help would be welcome.
Clean your screen with a bit of alcohol on a towel
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My vibrator does weird crap like this too if I have in the bathroom when I take a shower. I figure its the moisture in the air. Either that or I have a ghost that likes to watch me shower and F with me!
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Hi folks,
I have a problem with the screen of my Active when wet (eg. under shower). When water splashes on the screen (even small drops) my screen goes like crazy. It acts like I'm touching the screen with every single splash of the water drops. (It does this when screen is unlocked of course). It also makes it impossible to control with finger when drops are splashing. I started to think that wet finger control is a sort of scam.
I've imagined listening to music and be able to use the phone while in shower before I purchase this rugged phone. However I see it impossible now.
Is it some sort of a mulfunction? or it is supposed to behave that way. How does yours behave?
BTW I have the screen protector on that came affixed with the phone.
Thanks!
It is my understanding that the nature of the screen itself is such that working with water on the screen is not efficent. The reason why is that a capacitive screen acts by charging the screen with electricity and then monitoring the change in this charge as you touch it.
Water, just as your fingers, can absorb the electric charge on the screen and the screen would detect that as a touch. Therefor with some or much water on the screen it would be rendered unuseful (as the water would make the phone detect false input, as long as its on the screen).
There is however the possibility that this is not the case, but if so I am not aware of this. Possibly you could try some alternatives to controling your phone in such conditions when the screen is not useable.
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Armeddy said:
It is my understanding that the nature of the screen itself is such that working with water on the screen is not efficent. The reason why is that a capacitive screen acts by charging the screen with electricity and then monitoring the change in this charge as you touch it.
Water, just as your fingers, can absorb the electric charge on the screen and the screen would detect that as a touch. Therefor with some or much water on the screen it would be rendered unuseful (as the water would make the phone detect false input, as long as its on the screen).
There is however the possibility that this is not the case, but if so I am not aware of this. Possibly you could try some alternatives to controling your phone in such conditions when the screen is not useable.
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If that is the case what SE referring to as "Wet finger tracking" is? They must have done something so that the water on the screen does not effect (at least that much) the control.
After all St17i is a rugged and waterproof phone. Or at least I bought it because it is.....
Dude I'm sure it is waterproof.
Don't u c a difference between waterproof and frigging underwater capabilities... I say u ask too much maybe I dnt ask enuff
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It is my opinion that there is a noticeable difference from using your fingers on the screen when they are wet from using your phone while in the shower.
Even so, I don't really find it as a very big downfall. The reason I'd buy that phone is not it's ability to resist water damage as the possibility of throwing it at people without it breaking easily. But that is just me perhaps..
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Usually my fingers glide smoothly on the Prime's screen (I don't use any screen protector). Occasionally they become a bit sticky: swiping becomes hard, there is tangible resistance from the screen. It becomes particularly annoying when I need to repeat swiping many times, e.g. when scrolling a web page.
I'm not sure why and when then happens. Perhaps the problem lies in sweaty hands. On such occasions, I tried washing my hands very clean and drying them thoroughly, but this doesn't seem to help. They still feel a bit humid and do not glide on the screen effortlessly. Or perhaps the screen becomes too greasy and dirty? But again, cleaning the screen doesn't help on such occasions.
As I said, this doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it makes using the tablet rather unpleasant.
Anyone else with similar problems? Any solutions?
I have been having these problems with all my touch screen devices. It feels like my finger is jumping half an inch, then touch, then jumping again... Same for you? I haven't come up with any solution yet. This doesn't happen often though, so it's not a problem for me.
Skickat från min Asus Transformer Prime TF201
This thread could possibly be the most revolutionary, topping all the ICS OTA rooting stuff out there. The answer to this long-sought but rarely asked question will surely be a revolutionary new find for any and all touchscreen devices.
tl;dr, I don't know. Cool to find out though.
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use baby powder.
Maybe try cleaning your screen and then washing and drying your hands?
Last time I cleaned my screen: I wet the microfiber cloth from the tablet and wrung it out, wiped the screen; then dry wiped with the microfiber cloth from the dock.
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i started noticing this playing Order and Chaos on my Prime. the multi-touch has a tendency to glitch out.
i open another app, force quit the newly opened app using the Asus Task Manager and suddenly it works fine.
From being a sufferer of palmar hyperhidrosis (wiki it), I know your pains very well. Here's a list of what you could do when the hand sweating starts:
1) Find a cool place with a draft of wind to the hands (you could blow on your hands, but make sure no ones around!)
2) Cool down your body temperature (drink something cold, go outside for a few seconds, etc.)
3) Wash your hands with water at max cold (and might as well use soap) and/or submerge them in cold water
I S-OFF`ed my EVO 3D, flashed a custom recovery and a custom ROM (LeeDrOiD's latest), so I'm not on stock (if that's what's causing this).
Back in January, when it was cold outside (5-10 degrees), at times, after extensively using the phone outdoors (like 15-30 minutes), once I went into a warmer place (warmer by a few degrees Celsius, like 5 or so), the touchscreen was completely unresponsive. I could only lock or unlock the phone, but was unable to do anything else (which means using the touchscreen or capacitive keys, for that matter). I figured it may be because the screen was very cold or something...
I had to wait ~30 minutes for it to recover!
I figured that has something to do with the screen being somewhat covered by a very thin layer of water/ice or something... which rendered it almost completely useless (I was still able to drag the lock ring up a milimeter one time, out of ~20 attempts ).
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Now, it's almost April. It's warm here, alright, which means no more moisture outside (regarding the temperature, at least).
But there was drizzle outside yesterday, and I had to text someone. Several tiny water drops landed on my phone's touchscreen (not too much, covering like 1 centimeter in lenght), and the phone began to register mistaken touches...
The same happens when I try to use my phone with my fingers BARELY wet. I have to wipe the screen ENTIRELY to make sure it's not registering 10105909 touches all by itself...
This is ridiculous. Not even the HTC Desire (which had only 2 multi touch points, and even those, not so accurate) didn't have this problem! Nor the Desire HD.
Am I the only one?! Are you experiencing this, too?!
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As far as I know there is a small current running on top of the screen. Any kind of moisture will make your screen go crazy. Thats why I use a screen protector, because my sweaty hand dont play nice with any touch screen phone like the Evo 3D
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As far as I know there is a small current running on top of the screen. Any kind of moisture will make your screen go crazy. Thats why I use a screen protector, because my sweaty hand dont play nice with any touch screen phone like the Evo 3D
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As a matter of fact, I do use a screen protector. I've used MOMAX Anti-glare, MOMAX Clear, and right now I'm using a no-name crappy sheet that makes the screen look all wavy and shyte... I'm gonna apply a MOMAX Clear again soon.
Still, that's not the issue. Screen protector or not, the issue remains.
If you ever had such problems, please tell me what device are you using. CDMA, or GSM (for Europe - golden or for US/Asia, like me - red)?!
Same here, even when screen is completely dryed out.. What can we do about it?
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rahditzz said:
Same here, even when screen is completely dryed out.. What can we do about it?
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I cleaned the screen with my blouse after I've been playing on it outside for 30 minutes. Cleaning did nothing...
Yesterday, it was raining. Not too big rain drops, but I let about 20 of them to cover the screen, some were little, a few were huge. The screen performed wonderful (in the time I tested it : scrolling across the menus, typing a fast message, probably less than 20 seconds).
What the hell...
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NO responses?! Come on, I can't be the ONLY guy this is happening to !
There are 2 common types of touch screens. Resistive, which respond to flexing a thin sheet of plastic, and capacitive, which responds to an electric current. Resistive is not accurate so no one really uses it anymore except on knock off Chinese tablets. We have capacitive touch screens, same as apple products and every other popular android phone.
Any kind of moisture will interfere with the touch screen. Even if the air is very humid. There isn't much you can do if you are having those issues. And all electronics have specific temperature ranges they will function in. I don't know what the evo is rated for, but I'm sure it's somewhere.
Best advice is to keep dry. And no, a screen protector won't do much to help.
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gk1984 said:
There are 2 common types of touch screens. Resistive, which respond to flexing a thin sheet of plastic, and capacitive, which responds to an electric current. Resistive is not accurate so no one really uses it anymore except on knock off Chinese tablets. We have capacitive touch screens, same as apple products and every other popular android phone.
Any kind of moisture will interfere with the touch screen. Even if the air is very humid. There isn't much you can do if you are having those issues. And all electronics have specific temperature ranges they will function in. I don't know what the evo is rated for, but I'm sure it's somewhere.
Best advice is to keep dry. And no, a screen protector won't do much to help.
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I know... I just thought the 3VO might be faulty, since, as I said, the Desire and the Desire HD never had this problem only with a few water drops...
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Hey,
So I noticed that I get these "smudges" on my screen all the time. I am not sure how to describe it, but they look like smudges that make the screen go blurry but when you wipe it off with a cloth the scree is normal again.
This never happened before and it just started now and it keeps happening whenever I type on the screen or something. It is very annoying as I always have to keep cleaning my screen for the blurriness to go away.
If anyone know what I am talking about, is there a way to fix this?
Thanks.
Wash your hands before touching the screen should do it. ;-)
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Sorry if this had already been covered. My proximity sensor and FFC are very dirty so I cannot rely on either for anything useful (soon to be a warranty claim on this). When in a call on the newest paranoid android, my screen immediately goes black and will not come back on because of the dirty sensor. Is there a way in paranoid android to disable the proximity sensor? This is normally in call settings but I was not able to locate the toggle. Can anyone help me out?
Bump..
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Take the phone apart and clean it perhaps? Its really not that hard. 8 screws and a pry tool and your in. And if I remember correctly those components do come out. Just use some rubbing alcohol and clean the dust out.
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